From: andreas@myhost.subdomain.domain (Andreas Klemm) Subject: Re: Installation on 3rd SCSI-Drive Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1993 19:11:33 GMT
In <uli.348.743880256@izfm.uni-stuttgart.de> uli@izfm.uni-stuttgart.de (Uli Allgeier) writes:
>I am using an Adaptec 1542 SCSI-Controller and a Syquest SQ310 removable
>disk (105MB) configured as third drive. The first and second drives are
>harddisks. I can't change this order because it is required under DOS.
>How can I install LINUX (SLS-package) on the third drive (removable disk) ?
>/dev/sdc is not available during installation. Only sda and sdb are
>available during installation.
I would try to make the missing device nodes by hand ....
sda and sdb start with minor device numbers 0 ... 16
So I guess, that sdc starts with minor no. 32 ;-)
brw-r----- 1 root root 8, 0 Aug 29 1992 /dev/sda
brw-r----- 1 root root 8, 1 Aug 29 1992 /dev/sda1
brw-r----- 1 root root 8, 2 Aug 29 1992 /dev/sda2
...
brw-r----- 1 root root 8, 16 Aug 29 1992 /dev/sdb
brw-r----- 1 root root 8, 17 Aug 29 1992 /dev/sdb1
brw-r----- 1 root root 8, 18 Aug 29 1992 /dev/sdb2
...
mknod /dev/sdb b 8 32
mknod /dev/sdb1 b 8 33
mknod /dev/sdb2 b 8 34
.....
Try that, it should work ;-)
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